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| Michel Roth (Re-)Awarded 2009 MVP For Remote Desktop Services |
| Thursday, 02 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| I have been re-awarded as an MVP for Remote Desktop Services. I am honoured and thankful and want to thank everyone that made this happen. | |
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| Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning |
| Thursday, 02 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described in this article. | |
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| Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Released |
| Thursday, 02 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| Microsoft last week announced the availability of beta 2 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. | |
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| Windows 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp user or group filtering |
| Thursday, 02 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| The most wanted feature for Windows 2008 Terminal Services is RemoteApp user filtering. You don’t want all users to see all applications on the web portal. This feature will probably be released in Windows Server 2008 R2 but till then, you are out of luck. This article helps. | |
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| Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager |
| Wednesday, 01 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| In Windows 2008 R2, MS added a new MMC snap-in called Remote Desktop Connection Manager (SBMGR.msc on the Connection Broker machine). This Remote Desktop Connection Manager UI tool is available on a Remote Desktop Connection Broker server. It allows the administrator to easily configure and organize RemoteApp and Desktop Connections (RADC) resources. | |
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| Loose RDP7 vs ICA tests |
| Wednesday, 01 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| Ideally what should happen when designing a Desktop Virtualization Strategy (in my opinion) is start with the Success Criteria that the design needs to meet as defined by the business units/stakeholders/users, and if they are unsure or don’t know, then the best way to think about this is to strive to provide a User Experience that is *indistinguishable* from a normal PC. | |
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| Configuring Terminal Services Gateway using WMI |
| Wednesday, 01 July 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| This article is about WMI and Terminal Services Gateway. You can find a way to manage your TS Gateway server remotely by using WMI. Here I describe two methods, to add and to remove a Resource Authorization Policy (RAP). | |
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| Dual Boot from VHD Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| Tuesday, 30 June 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| Boot from VHD is a new technique for installing and maintaining operating system environments. Unlike virtual machines, the operating system that is running from a “boot from VHD” environment is using the actual hardware instead of emulated hardware. | |
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| How To Use the /autodelete Option With vWorkspace AppPortal |
| Tuesday, 30 June 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| Quest vWorkspace 6.0 introduced a little known yet valuable new commandline option for the vWorkspace AppPortal Clients called the “autodelete” option. Let’s take a quick look at what this option does. | |
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| Multiple Seamless Applications with Windows Virtual PC |
| Friday, 26 June 2009 by Michel Roth | |
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We have spent a lot of time telling people how Windows Virtual PC and Virtual XP mode will allow them to run incompatible legacy applications on Windows 7. Unfortunately a number of people have come away with the impression that you can only do this with Virtual XP mode and that you can only run a single application at a time. This is simply not true. |
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| Finally, the Mysteries of ICA Decoded |
| Friday, 26 June 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| This is a tech talk that will be taking place on July 9, 2009. One of our propeller heads will be geeking out on how Citrix ICA (a key feature of Citrix HDX Broadcast) and the CGP protocol function | |
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Articles
| Specifics of what is new in Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 by Michel Roth | |
| I've talked about what is new about Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS (Remote Desktop Services) before. This time around, let take a look at the details in a little bit more detail based on the information that Microsoft has made public. This article will focus on the "pure TS features". | |
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| My Ultimate ESX Whitebox: Small, Aesthetically Pleasing and under $1000 |
| Thursday, 16 October 2008 by Michel Roth | |
| In my day (and night?) job working for Quest I get to demonstrate the Virtual Access Suite (VAS) a lot. In short this means that I have to demo a VAS infrastructure at the very least consisting of a VAS Connection Broker, a VAS Terminal Server, a VAS Virtual Desktop, a Domain Controller, a VirtualCenter server and a ESX host. With a lot of time and patience one would be able to get pretty far with this with a decent laptop up until ESX. ESX will not run on "normal laptop hardware". Period. So let me share how I found my ultimate ESX Whitebox. | |
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| A First look at RTO Virtual Profiles |
| Wednesday, 09 April 2008 by Michel Roth | |
| A couple of months ago I noticed that RTO was offering a new product called RTO Virtual Profiles. I also said it was probably just another Flex Profiles clone. As it turns out I was quite wrong. Wrong in that the product wasn't officially released yet and wrong in that RTO Virtual Profiles deals with profiles in a very different, refreshing way. I took a look at some of the early betas. | |
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| Microsoft Releases Hyper-V RC: RTM Will Be Sooner Than Expected, Much Sooner... |
| Thursday, 20 March 2008 by Michel Roth | |
| Microsoft just announced that they have delivered the first release candidate (RC) of Hyper-V to the general public. So after shipping Windows Server 2008 with a beta of the Hyper-V role embedded and now, not even a month later, shipping the Hyper-V release candidate, Microsoft is on the fast-track with Hyper-V. Mark my words: Hyper-V will be released (a lot) earlier than August 2008. | |
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| Off Shoring Virtual Application Creation |
| Friday, 14 March 2008 by Michel Roth | |
| Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether you use SoftGrid, Thinstall, Citrix Application Streaming or another product, very specific skills are required to make this work. Why do all the hard work yourself? | |
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| About My Decision To Join Provision Networks |
| Friday, 07 March 2008 by Michel Roth | |
| This is ironic. I've been scooped myself. As you might have noticed, Brian Madden has blogged about the fact that I have decided to join Provision Networks (now a part of Quest Software). This information came out a little earlier than I planned but I guess this is as good a time as any for me to explain why I decided to join Provision Networks and what will happen to Thincomputing.net. | |
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